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Sapphire joins the Intel X79 party with an extreme board aimed squarely at the enthusiast.
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Sapphire joins the Intel X79 party with an extreme board aimed squarely at the enthusiast.
Does this mean that only one PCIE3 card will be able to be used ? If we assume that most GPUs are double height for the cooler, and we install one in Slot #1, then Slot#2 is obscured by the cooler.
The remaining slots for CF are PCIE2 only...
It certainly looks that way reading the article......although I am hoping Hexus got something wrong and such a massive mistake wasn't made!
Plus what is it with SB fans these days? :(
Yeah....and those small ones always leave me feeling like they will pack up/start screaming as soon as the warranty ends!
How many PCIe 3 cards are available yet? ;) And how many of them will actually be bottlenecked by a PCIe 2 x16 slot? I don't think it's really a deal breaker if you have to run two of your three GPUs at PCIe 2 x16, is it...? :p
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Dont\' forget that\'s cooling the *only* chip in the chipset, *plus* an nvidia bridging chip. One assumes that the X79 pch does something that generates plenty of heat...?Quote:
Originally Posted by miniyazz
Not atm, no.....in fact if I built myself a new primary gaming rig today, I wouldn't be fussed about PCI-E 3.0 at all really. I would put SATA3 and USB3 above it for importance today.Quote:
Originally Posted by scaryjim
Although after saying that I still think it's crazy if the 2 PCI-E 3.0 slots are adjacent to each other....it just shows a lack of design/thought and makes you wonder what else they got wrong........
I don't change my CPU/MoBo that often. My current machine was built in 2009.
If I buy a MoBo/CPU I would expect it to last at least 3 years. By 2015 I would expect all GPUs to be able to utilise PCIE3.
I certainly expect to get a better design when I fork out a premium price for the board. As Shaithis said, it shows a lack of thought if true.
It has 4 sata 3 ports doesnt it, not 2?
On the other hand, the second PCIe 3 lane is only x8 anyway, so has identical bandwidth to a PCIe 2 x16 lane, making it pretty much irrelevant which one your expensive GFX card is stuck in ;) With only 40 x3 lanes, you can't run 2 cards at v3 x16 off the chipset at all...